page_title: Ithaca College
section_title: Alumni
hierarchical_section_title: Ithaca College / Alumni
caption_attribution_description: English: Bob Iger at a ceremony for Jerry Bruckheimer to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
context_page_description: Ithaca College is a private liberal arts college in Ithaca, New York. The college was founded by William Egbert in 1892 as a conservatory of music and is set against the backdrop of the city of Ithaca, Cayuga Lake, waterfalls, and gorges. The college is best known for its large list of alumni who have played substantial roles in the media and entertainment industries.
  Ithaca College is internationally known for the Roy H. Park School of Communications, which is ranked by several organizations as a top school for journalism, film, media and entertainment. The college has a strong liberal arts core, and offers several pre-professional programs, along with some graduate programs.
  Ithaca College has been ranked among the Top 10 masters universities in the "Regional Universities North" category by U.S. News & World Report, every year since 1996, and was ranked 9th in 2019. Ithaca College is consistently named among the best colleges in the nation by Princeton Review, with the 2018 guide ranking the college number 3 for theater, number 3 for newspaper, and number 6 for Radio, and is among the top schools producing Fulbright scholarship recipients.
context_section_description: Ithaca College has over 70,000 alumni, with clubs in Boston, Chicago, Connecticut, Los Angeles, Metro New York, National Capital, North and South Carolina, Philadelphia, Rochester (NY), San Diego, and Southern Florida. Alumni events are hosted in cooperation with city-specific clubs and through a program called "IC on the Road".
  Following is a brief list of noteworthy Ithaca College alumni.
  For a more extensive list, refer to the List of Ithaca College alumni.
  The Birthday Boys (2005, 2006), sketch comedy group and stars of IFC comedy show executive produced by Bob Odenkirk and Ben Stiller
  David Boreanaz (B.S. 1991), actor, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel and Bones
  Chris Burch (B.S. 1976), founder and CEO of Burch Creative Capital and co-founder of Tory Burch LLC
  Kerry Butler (B.F.A. 1992), Tony Award-nominated Broadway actress, Xanadu, Catch Me If You Can and Little Shop of Horrors
  Ted Cohen (attended), music industry executive
  Alan Colmes (attended), television and radio host of Hannity & Colmes and The Alan Colmes Show
  Kevin Connors (B.S. 1997), ESPN sportscaster
  Andy Daly (1993), actor and comedian
  Gavin DeGraw (attended), Grammy Award-nominated and platinum-selling musician best known for Billboard Hot 100 hits "I Don't Want to Be" and "Not Over You"
  Peter Dougherty (1977), creator of Yo! MTV Raps
  Julius Eastman (attended), African American composer of minimal music.
  Michelle Federer (B.F.A. 1995), theater and film actress; originated the character, Nessarose, in Broadway's Wicked
  Ben Feldman, Emmy Award-nominated actor, star of Superstore
  Colonel Arnald Gabriel (1950), Conductor Emeritus of the U.S. Air Force Band
  Barbara Gaines (B.A. 1979), Emmy Award-winning executive producer, Late Show with David Letterman
  Paul Gallo (B.F.A. 1974), Tony Award-nominated lighting designer, has designed more than 200 shows in NYC and regional theaters including: City of Angels, Six Degrees of Separation, Crazy for You, Smokey Joe's Cafe and Titanic
  Mitchell S. Goldberg (BA 1981), Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
  Robert Allen Iger (B.S. 1973), chairman and CEO, The Walt Disney Company
  Richard Jadick (B.S. 1987), combat surgeon who was awarded the Bronze Star for service in Iraq
  Jeremy Jordan, Tony Award-nominated and Grammy Award-nominated star of Newsies and Bonnie & Clyde, also starred on Smash and in Joyful Noise
  Bob Kur (B.S. 1970), Washington Post Radio, former NBC News national reporter
  Scott LaFaro, influential jazz bassist with the Bill Evans Trio (1959–61)
  Ricki Lake, Emmy Award-winning actress, Serial Mom, Hairspray, television host
  David Guy Levy, film producer, Would You Rather and Terri
  Allan Loeb, film screenwriter, Things We Lost in the Fire, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, The Dilemma
  Gavin MacLeod, Golden Globe Award-nominated actor, The Love Boat and The Mary Tyler Moore Show
  Jesse Zook Mann (B.S. 2002), Emmy Award-winning documentary film and television producer and director
  Robert Marella, former professional wrestler (known as Gorilla Monsoon), ringside commentator for the World Wrestling Federation
  Michael Meador (B.S. 1978), chemist, Nanotechnology Project Manager for NASA's Game Changing Technologies Program, former director of the National Nanotechnology Coordination Office in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, and 2017 recipient of the Ithaca College lifetime achievement award
  David Muir (B.S. 1995), ABC World News anchor
  Nick Nickson, hockey broadcaster for Los Angeles Kings
  Tom Nugent, college football head coach and sportscaster, College Football Hall of Famer, developer of the I Formation
  Les Otten (B.S. 1971), vice chairman and partner, Boston Red Sox Organization
  Joe Pera (2010), American actor, producer, comedian
  CCH Pounder, Emmy Award-nominated actress, Bagdad Café, The Shield and Avatar
  Tish Rabe (1973), children's book author and writer of over 40 Dr. Seuss books
  Karl Ravech (B.S. 1987), ESPN sportscaster
  Chris Regan (1989), Emmy Award-winning writer for The Daily Show
  Mark Romanek, filmmaker (One Hour Photo, Never Let Me G
caption: Robert Allen Iger '73, chairman and chief executive officer of The Walt Disney Company
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